Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy = new Ghostbusters

"inestimable". Can one estimate the damage wrought by Ghostbusters? No, one cannot.

yeah ck the repeat business from this board alone for Guardians of the Galaxy

and Octopussy is perhaps the best 007 film of the last 40 years

that's not saying much considering p much every 007 film is awful

What, exactly, is the nature of this inestimable damage that Ghostbusters has wrought? If anything, it had far less influence on American movies than I personally might have preferred.

I can't think of any movie that tried to copy the "formula" of Ghostbusters - ie an effects-driven ensemble comedy. unless we count the Avengers.

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though considering how those movies did, i'm not arguing that we're overcome with the shit

Great tagline

i'm sure pinkerton was just trying to bitch that ghostbusters sucks and is part of the sucky suckage that's been sucking in hollywood for years, and if anything gave the film too much credit

vampire looks like the future islands bro w/fangs

Some have said The Frighteners was heavily influenced by Ghostbusters but aside from visual effects for the ghosts, I don't see it much.

if you really wanted to throw something at ghostbusters' feet you could argue it was the fullest flower of the defanging of boomer subversive comedy - snl grads now protecting the system in a PG movie rather than attempting to destroy it in an R, with its true villain an EPA bureaucrat

there have been three Night at the Museums, you clowns

one franchise in 40 years doesn't seem like much

yeah you get another guess if you think im going to name the other dozen

I believe you just won the Olympics gold in mental gymnastics for blaming Night At The Museum on Ghostbusters, there, Morbs.

plus the failed ones

leaving the fx aside, the blandification of comedy

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I can't remember if you ever actually watched Ghostbusters or not

the week it came out.

It's okay to just say "I did not like this movie" without trying to reconstruct the history of American film and/or comedy around it.

i've always said it had help from John Landis, Nora Ephron and then Ap*t*w beat the dead horse

If you want to argue for the blandishment of popular comedy films, I can back that horse a little more easily.

wtf else would we be talkin' about

The initial tweet read as if Ghostbusters was meant to be the harbinger of all subsequent cinematic blight. You then argued that it was merely the harbinger of bland comedy. I'm just trying to get my bearings since I'm still living in a world where Ghostbusters wasn't really a harbinger of much more than Ghostbusters 2 and a short-lived breakfast cereal.

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yeah idk I just don't see Ghostbusters as this big turning point or anything

it's all a rich tapestry etc

well your comedy standards were formed after.

actually I didn't think ghostbusters was very funny when I rewatched it last year. Maybe I'm damaged and bitter now.

lol, imagine some dink blowing a gasket about the "inestimable" damage caused by the absent-minded professor

Problem Child was singlehandedly responsible for the nationwide erosion of childhood innocence.

If anything Ghostbusters deserves credit for having a fantastic script, unlike any movie that Morbs alludes to as a strawman.

Murray always benefitted greatly from proximity to Ramis.

alternatively, Ramis benefited greatly from proximity to Murray

I've always wondered what age group it was aimed at. It's a PG but there's swearing and some sexual content stronger than that rating would normally have. I don't know if the cartoons and toys were already planned at this point.
But I suppose quite a lot of things got turned into a kids franchise that started out as teen and adult films. Like Aliens, Predator and even Freddy Krueger. The Ace Ventura sequel was probably softened because kids liked the first film more than any adult audience.

Dunno how old you are, but they got away with a lot more in the age before PG-13. Jaws, Airplane ... all sorts of PG stuff would get harsher ratings today. That said, on recent screening Ghostbusters stuff is pretty minor. Minimal profanity, minor innuendo, especially compared to, say, the violence or sex jokes of the aforementioned.

Admittedly, Jaws and Airplane were both '70s, so, maybe never mind, because LOL '70s. But I do know friends who have showed their kids, say, the original Vacation, thinking of the relative innocuousness of the Christmas one, only to regret it. But only slightly, because the first Vacation iirc is R but relatively mild, too.

That said, Poltergeist is PG. Compared to that, Ghostbusters should be G.

idk if ghost blowjobs are really G-rated

aykroyd gets a ghost blowjob in the movie! when i was a kid i was like, "is she stealing his pants? why is he crossing his eyes?"

lmao xp

It's pretty subtle and over fast, tbf, compared to Otto pilot.

i always felt sigourney in her zuul possession flashdance look was underrated compared to how obsessed people still are w/princess leia in her jabba prisoner gear.

When I was a kid I thought the ghost was trying to harm or humiliate him in some way.

Maybe PG was a lot softer in the late 80s and through the 90s.

It still seems really bizarre these big companies who often throw a panic at the chance that a kid might see something vaguely adult would turn so many of these things into kids franchises. But I suppose the moneymaking potential must have killed those concerns.
But still... "Hey kids? Wanna buy the claws of a burnt child molester from a movie you should never see for several years?"

i always felt sigourney in her zuul possession flashdance look was underrated compared to how obsessed people still are w/princess leia in her jabba prisoner gear.

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part of it is was seeing Ripley in an eighties gown licking her chops

sigourney weaver in ghostbusters is underrated in every way

I've always wondered what age group it was aimed at. It's a PG but there's swearing and some sexual content stronger than that rating would normally have. I don't know if the cartoons and toys were already planned at this point.

those dry ice line readings ("What about the Twinkie?") were def for the over-20 crowd.

What a lovely singing voice you have!

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